Managing Feeds

Administrators can control the default behavior of feeds used to to stay current on content changes.

Users can choose to receive feeds (RSS, JSON, or Atom). As an administrator, you can configure aspects of these feeds, such as
which feed technology is used, whether basic authentication is required, and so on.

Fastpath: Admin Console: System > Settings > Feeds

Table 1. Permissions Management for Non-Global Blogs

Setting

Description

Enable Feeds

Enables feeds across the community.

Author Format

Specifies how the author will be displayed in the feed.

Basic Authentication

Turns on the requirement that feed requests specify a username and
password.

Default Format

Default format for feeds generated by the community.

Number of Items

The number of items returned for each feed.

Show

Specifies whether the feed results should include the full text of
the content or only a summary of it.

Length of Summary

Specifies how much of the content (how many characters) should be
included in the feed result summary.